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In the near future, more missions of exploration will be sent to our neighbour planets and moons to detect signs of life. The automatisation of such search is not an easy task and selecting the right samples for the analysis is even less easy. This paper proposes a technique using infra-red spectroscopy coupled with statistical and multivariate algorithms to preselect targets for detailed search for...
The O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses) nanosatellite is the first science demonstration spacecraft and flight mission of the NASA Astrobiology Small-Payloads Program (ASP). O/OREOS was launched successfully on November 19, 2010, to a high-inclination (72°), 650-km Earth orbit aboard a US Air Force Minotaur IV rocket from Kodiak, Alaska. O/OREOS consists of 3 conjoined cubesat...
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